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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the richest person on Earth, is donating $33 million to fund college scholarships for 1,000 undocumented immigrant high school students who live in the U.S. with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, status.

In a press release announcing the gift, Bezos shared that his father had come to America from read »

I previously warned against setting expectations and valuations too high with VR. While 2016 was the year that many of those sky-high expectations crashed and burned, 2017 saw things beginning to turn around. Here’s my take on the progress made in the industry this past year.

2018 promises to be an interesting year for the smart home and security industry. We’ll undoubtedly see many new products and solutions designed make our lives easier and more productive, so that we can focus on the things that matter to us most. After all, isn’t that the goal of a winning consumer technology product?

2017 was an exciting year for fans and adopters of AI. As we enter 2018, I wanted to take a look at what lies ahead. One thing is certain: we’ve barely just begun on this journey and there will be great successes and monumental failures in the year to come. Before I dive into the dangerous waters of predictions, it might be helpful to set the read »

In response to the tremendous growth occurring in connected devices within the home, Intel announced today a comprehensive 5-point strategy focused on bringing more intelligence to the home, along with other new advanced capabilities. This new strategy is great in that it accentuates a partnership element and is read »

The carnage caused by the Meltdown and Spectre bugs has hit a new victim: Windows 10 users. The irony, however, is it isn’t the dangerous vulnerabilities themselves which are causing the problems, but rather the fixes Microsoft has issued in an attempt to patch them.

The 11 million customers of discount broker TD Ameritrade accumulated in measured form common stocks, options and fixed income securities and ended 2017 with holdings in line with the gains of the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, according to charts Ameritrade provided to Forbes. The TD Ameritrade IMX index shows that the read »

Last week, Microsoft announced it would be acquiring Avere Systems, a high-performance storage vendor for enterprise customers with large-scale compute workloads. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the announcement information contained only general mentions of “bringing together” Avere and Azure offerings with “tighter read »

Google just announced significant enhancements to its machine learning services (MLaaS), attempting to close the significant competitive gap that Microsoft has enjoyed, in my opinion, for the last year or so. Not to be left out, Amazon.com AWS announced the company’s own new MLaaS tools and services at AWS Re:Invent last November, trying to read »

When it comes to storage, this new year certainly won’t be boring. A number of technologies and market movements have been percolating over the past few years and will reach full steam in 2018—impacting the landscape for enterprise suppliers and enterprise buyers alike. There is a lot to cover, so let’s dive in.

Argus Research, well known for its high-quality research, does not advise companies, broker trades or manage money. As such, the independent research firm’s analysts can make unbiased and impartial judgments about the companies and stocks they cover. Here, 10 analysts from Argus Research who often contribute toread »

We are nearly a month into 2018 and my head is still reeling from 2017. It was an active year in the server ecosystem, to say the least. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC, Lenovo, Cisco and Supermicro all launched next-generation server portfolios. These launches were the result of a very active year in the CPU world. AMD made a big re-entry read »

This week it was reported that one option for Dell Technologies to reemerge as a public company would be for VMware to buy Dell Technologies in a “reverse merger.” A reverse merger makes sense, given that Dell EMC is behind in developing compelling private cloud and multi-cloud solutions, and VMware is not.

The world’s second largest publicly traded company by market cap has been in discussions for a joint venture with the world’s largest privately held company (which is hoping to become the world’s largest public company, by market cap, within a year). Alphabet (parent company of Google) and Saudi Aramco are apparently in talks to build data read »

Enterprise IT is an increasingly cloud-aware undertaking—more and more applications and data are migrating to Amazon.com AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft’s Azure. It’s important to note though that not all workloads are following suit with the widespread cloud migration. This fact is driving the industry to focus on supporting hybrid read »